Not to sounds like a Monty Python skit, but 50ms really does seem like luxury to me :-). I guess to back up the OP's point, I regularly use vim over 250ms+ lat

Not to sounds like a Monty Python skit, but 50ms really does seem like luxury to me :-). I guess to back up the OP's point, I regularly use vim over 250ms+ latency lines for hours on end. It's not fantastic, but it's definitely doable. You need to have your vim golf game up to par, though :-)